While the promised flexibility of open source could have advantages and possibilities for processors and SoCs, where does the industry stand on verification approaches and methodologies from here? Single-source ISAs of the past relied on general industry verification technologies and methodologies, but open-source ISA-based processor users and adopters will need to review the verification flows of the processor and SoC.
Simon Davidmann, CEO, Imperas Software pointed out during a panel last week at the RISC-V Summit held in Silicon Valley that designs based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture bring interesting verification challenges.
[Source: SemiEngineering]
